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THE BRITISH MUSEUM:


Hello everybody!! and welcome to this awesome wiki about this emblemated place,the British Museum, where you can watch some nice videos and pictures about it. Enjoy it.
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The British Museum


At first, we are going to mention a little introduction to explain what is. So we can say the British Museum,
placed in London, is considered one of the world´s greatest and most interesting museums of human history and culture.
Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is among one of the most comprehensive,
and largest in existence and originate from all continents, showing and documenting the story of human culture
from its beginnings to now.
It was established in 1753, and the center was reveledoped in 2001. At first the British Museum was based on the collections of the physician and sientist Sir Hans Sloane.
We recommend to watch those videos which show you things about this place!!!






































With this photo you can have a good idea of the estructure of this place:
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Today, the British Museum has grown to become one of the largest museums in the world, covering an area of over 92,000 m2






In this building you can buy lots of souvenirs and strange objects from this museum:


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It was redeveloped to become the Great Court, surrounding the original Reading room


In this photo, you can see one of the most important monuments in the museum, the Roseta Stone




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The Rosetta Stone, 196 BC, key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs.